A state is defined as a community of people occupying a definite territory with its own government that the people obey. It has three main elements - people, territory, and government. The people are the population living within the state's demarcated territory. The government is the agency that formulates, expresses, and carries out the will of the state and has sovereignty, or supreme power over the people in its territory as well as freedom from external control by other states.

1. Concepts of State and Government

2. Meaning of State

3. A state is a community of persons more or less numerous, permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying freedom from external control.

4. The Philippines is a state.Elements of State

5. People The mass of the population living within the state.

6. “People”answers the question, “who governs whom?”

7. no specific number requirement.Territory Demarcated area that rightly belongs to the population

8. “Territory”answers the question, “where?”

9. terrestrial, fluvial, maritime and aerial

10. should be permanent and large enough to be self-sufficingGovernment Refers to the agency to which the will of the state is formulated, expressed, and carried out.

11. SovereigntyMay be defined as the supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its will from the people within its jurisdiction and corollarily to have freedom from foreign control.

12. “Sovereignty”Internal – power of the state to rule within its territoryb. External– the freedom of the state to carry out its activities without subjection to or control by other states.